Capital and Interest by Frederic Bastiat ~ Full Audiobook [business]

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10/11/23

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Capital and Interest by Frederic Bastiat audiobook.

Genre: business

Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of socialist ideology after the French revolution, where provisional governments were rivaling each other for power. Of central concern was who should control the money. How is wealth created? How should it be divided amongst the people? What services should government provide? Same questions we are asking now. This essay addresses the popular fallacy of the day that Capital should be available to all gratuitiously, without necessity of paying back loans, and looking upon any form of interest as Usury. Bastiat argued that capital is created by savings, and savings are what makes borrowing possible so the common man can get ahead and prosper, and lending is only worth the risk if the lender profits by it, via interest. He demonstrated the law of supply and demand, that, in essence, interest decreases as availability of capital increases. His basic premises is that without a leisure class (people who have money to spare over earning daily bread), there would be nothing to borrow, so that neither the common man nor society can prosper.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:07:35) Chapter 2

(00:25:13) Chapter 3

(00:33:01) Chapter 4

(00:48:17) Chapter 5

(00:59:49) Chapter 6

(01:08:00) Chapter 7

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Henry D. Thoreau by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

October 11, 2023

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426m

Henry D. Thoreau by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn audiobook.

Genre: biography

Written by Concord reformer and firsthand acquaintance Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Henry D. Thoreau offers an intimate portrait of the man behind Walden and the era that shaped him. Drawing on personal memories, family testimony, and the literary circles of Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Sanborn follows Thoreau from his New England roots and youth through his emergence as a restless scholar, precise observer of nature, and uncompromising moral voice. The story moves between the ordinary details of work reminding us that Thoreau had to earn his living, and the extraordinary intensity of a mind determined to live by principle, even when that put him at odds with custom, commerce, and public opinion. Along the way, Sanborn maps the friendships and rivalries that tested Thoreau's independence, the quiet discipline of fieldwork that fed his writing, and the social and political storms of mid-19th-century America that demanded a response. At its heart, this is a biography of character: how a private life of woods and words became a public challenge to live deliberately.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:17) Chapter 01

(00:46:42) Chapter 02

(01:21:40) Chapter 03

(02:01:58) Chapter 04

(02:36:54) Chapter 05

(03:16:10) Chapter 06

(03:51:00) Chapter 07

(04:26:39) Chapter 08

(04:44:15) Chapter 09

(05:15:59) Chapter 10

(05:41:12) Chapter 11

(06:09:43) Chapter 12

(06:26:28) Chapter 13

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Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper ~ Full Audiobook [history]

October 12, 2023

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483m

Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper audiobook.

Genre: history

In Some American Storytellers, editor and critic Frederic Taber Cooper offers a guided tour of American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, introducing listeners to a vivid lineup of popular writers and the distinct narrative gifts that made them household names. Part literary portrait, part close reading, these essays trace how each author wins attention and trust - through voice, character, atmosphere, humor, suspense, and the careful shaping of plot. Cooper moves from the polished cosmopolitan worlds of Edith Wharton to the frontier mythmaking of Owen Wister, from O. Henry's swift twists of irony to Ambrose Bierce's sharp-edged wit, and onward through figures such as Francis Marion Crawford, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Winston Churchill, Robert W. Chambers, Ellen Glasgow, David Graham Phillips, Robert Herrick, Booth Tarkington, Gertrude Atherton, and Frank Norris. As he compares styles and ambitions, Cooper keeps returning to a central question: what makes a writer a true storyteller, kin to the oldest traditions of spoken tale and fireside legend, yet unmistakably American in rhythm and sensibility. The result is an accessible, opinionated, and often illuminating snapshot of a formative literary moment.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:33) Chapter 01

(00:38:06) Chapter 02

(01:06:05) Chapter 03

(01:32:46) Chapter 04

(02:01:48) Chapter 05

(02:30:44) Chapter 06

(03:08:08) Chapter 07

(03:46:35) Chapter 08

(04:24:43) Chapter 09